[Peace-discuss] Re: [ucprogressives] Fw: RELEASE: $1 million Anti-Teachers Union Campaign Begins Today

[John W.]

There was an interesting article in Time Magazine a couple of weeks ago 
about merit pay for teachers.  Some teachers' unions are beginning to be a 
bit open to the concept of merit pay, provided that there's some empirical 
way of measuring teacher effectiveness, and it's not just a case of 
butt-kissing the principal.

John Wason



At 11:55 AM 3/11/2008, unionyes wrote:

>From: "Tim Miller" <miller at unionfacts.com>
>To: "Bill Gorrell " <laborhour at yahoo.com>
>Subject: RELEASE: $1 million Anti-Teachers Union Campaign Begins Today
>Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:32:41 -0400
>
>
>
>For Immediate Release
>Center for Union Facts
>March 11th, 2008
>For More Information Contact:
>Tim Miller or Sarah Longwell- 202-463-7106
>
>New Campaign Exposes Teachers Unions for Protecting Bad Teachers
>Center for Union Facts Announces “Ten Worst
>(Union-Protected) Teachers” Contest
>
>Washington – Today the Center for Union Facts (CUF) launched an aggressive 
>national campaign to educate Americans about how teachers unions protect 
>incompetent teachers, demoralize good teachers, block reform, and 
>ultimately hurt our public education system.
>
>The million dollar advertising blitz features full-page ads this morning 
>in USA TODAY as well as the New York Times, and a television commercial 
>airing on CNN and Fox News.
>
>The ad in USA TODAY announces CUF’s “Ten Worst (union-protected) Teachers” 
>contest, which will be further publicized by a seven-story billboard going 
>up in Times Square later this week. The contest will allow anyone 13 and 
>up to nominate the worst union-protected teachers in America. Once CUF has 
>identified the ten worst, we will offer each of them $10,000 to quit the 
>profession forever. The purpose of the contest is to encourage teachers 
>known to be incompetent to quit the profession because it is too difficult 
>to have them terminated.
>
>The ads also announce a new website called TeachersUnionExposed.com, which 
>features original, previously unreported research about the union’s 
>stranglehold on America’s schools. The site also highlights 20 cities for 
>which we have obtained detailed information about how protections insulate 
>against turnover despite poor student achievement.
>
>“Teachers unions are failing children all over the country by protecting 
>incompetent teachers and fighting to maintain the status quo,” said CUF 
>Executive Director Richard Berman. “Worst of all, teachers unions hurt all 
>of the amazing teachers in America by treating them exactly the same as 
>incompetent teachers who shouldn’t be in the profession.”
>
>Berman continued, “This campaign is an effort to shine a bright light on 
>the damage inflicted on our education system by self-interested teachers 
>unions. Furthermore, we are advocating on behalf of all the great teachers 
>who deserve better than to be subject to old-fashioned union rules that 
>deny them merit pay and other incentives to continue their excellent work.”
>
>To learn more visit: 
><http://www.TeachersUnionExposed.com>www.TeachersUnionExposed.com. For 
>further information or to arrange an interview please call Sarah Longwell 
>at (202) 463-7106.
>
>TeachersUnionExposed.com is a project of the Center for Union Facts 
>(<http://www.unionfacts.com/>www.UnionFacts.com). CUF is a non-profit 
>organization supported by foundations, businesses, union members, and the 
>general public. We are dedicated to showing Americans the facts about 
>today's union leadership.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/peace-discuss/attachments/20080312/20c09348/attachment.html